iOS 5: Use keyboard shortcuts for frequently used words in other languages
Sometimes, you use words in other languages so often that as convenient as it already is, it's still a hassle to switch keyboards.
But you can use the keyboard shortcut for such words. It's faster and doesn't break your flow. Like so.
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Apple’s latest patent spells big trouble for competitors
Apple won a victory against HTC on Monday that could signal the beginning of a long war of attrition between iOS and Google, and a new patent granted to Apple Tuesday potentially gives it more ammunition to chip away at the Android user experience. 
Apple reportedly puts the final ink on $400-500 million purchase of Anobit, an Israeli flash-storage company
Last week’s big Apple rumor was Apple’s purported talks to purchase an Israeli flash memory firm called Anobit. Now, Israeli news website Calcalist reports that the rumored deal has actually been finalized. Anobit’s purchase price is still up in the air, but the report is calling for a dollar amount between 400 and 500 million...
ITC rules: HTC violating Apple patents, ban of some HTC devices in the U.S. starting April 19, 2012
The International Trade Commission has just ruled in favor of Apple in the Apple vs. HTC patent lawsuit in regards to their mobile devices. HTC is found guilty of violating Apple patent 5946647, which is described here via Google Patent Search: A system and method causes a computer to detect and perform actions on structures identified...
iOS 5: Show hourly forecast in the Weather app
Here's a piece of new functionality with iOS 5 Weather app.
The Weather app doesnt look like it has changed much, but when looking at the forecast for the week, tap and pull down below a day and it will give an hourly forecast.
[crarko adds: Hey, tha...
Explosion at Pegatron’s iPad 2 back panel plant, should not affect production
Reuters shares some bad news from a Pegatron plant in Shanghai, China: there has been an explosion and 61 workers were hurt. 23 of the 61 hurt are said to have been hospitalized and the fire caused “some” damage to the plant’s machinery. Reuters says that this is an Apple plant and the report sources...
Neat App Store app puts calling, texting, emailing, web, tweeting, Facebook, and more shortcuts in Notification Center
A neat new iOS application called Quickpick has hit the App Store (no jailbreak!) and it fills a void that many feel Apple has left in their implementation of the iOS 5 Notification Center. For those unfamiliar, Notification Center is the place on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch where a user can view all...
Facebook brings Timeline to iPhone in free update, iPad support ‘coming soon’
Facebook recently went public with an awesome new feature called Timelime, a brand-new interface for profiles. That feature launched for the mobile web view of Facebook for iPhone but until today has not been available in Facebook’s native application on the App Store. Today’s Facebook app update for Mobile Timeline is iPhone and iPod touch...
Download Apple’s new iPad wallpapers coming in iOS 5.1 (iPhone versions, too!)
Probably the new default iOS 5.1 has a little gem for wallpaper fanatics like me: Apple will include four new wallpapers in the iPad version of iOS 5.1 (likely the release launching alongside the iPad 3 next year). The new wallpapers are water crashing onto a sand beach, grass blades, and two ocean wallpapers. These...
First Bluetooth 4.0 accessory helps you find your car, as Microsoft launches Bluetooth keyboard for iPad
The iPhone 4S is one of the first devices to support Bluetooth 4.0. Today, the first accessory to take advantage of the new technology is a new Kickstarter project called Find My Car Smart. Find My Car Smart uses a Bluetooth 4.0 powered dongle to transmit the location of a car that can then be...
Samsung drops iPhone 4S Germany patent suit after discovering Apple’s Qualcomm licensing agreement
Samsung dropped its lawsuit in Germany seeking to ban the sale of Apple’s iPhone 4S. The South Korea-based company had focused its complaint against a patent covering 3G communications tech. According to patent expert Florian Mueller of FOSS Patents, Samsung recently discovered a Qualcomm licensing agreement protects the technology. “Other news from Mannheim: Samsung has...
Digitimes: Apple to begin producing 7.85-inch iPads in Q2 2012
Digitimes has published an interesting report this evening, saying Apple will begin the production of a 7.85-inch iPad in Q2 2012. Apple will reportedly begin selling the smaller iPads prior to Q4 2012, but will also sell another iPad in Q1 2012 — presumably the iPad 3. Apple is likely to launch a 7.85-inch iPad...
